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Oct 30 2024: Greater than 1,000 numbers from the literary and show business– consisting of a number of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer reward, and Booker reward champions– have actually authorized an open letter against “illiberal and unsafe” cultural boycotts.

Nov 06 2024: The last few years have been challenging for libraries and curators, amid a surge in politically encouraged book bans and legal attacks on libraries and library employees. And with last night’s election results, the future for collections just obtained a great deal murkier, …

Oct 27 2024: For 2 years, the Republican politician Pennridge College Board, north of Philadelphia, governed with a burst of ideological power. It instituted book bans and curriculum rewrites– the sort of national politics pressed nationwide by Moms for Liberty, the conventional advocacy team allied …

Nov 01 2024: PEN America has actually released its most recent record documenting public school book bans for the complete 2023-2024 academic year, finding 10,046 bans across the country– a more than 200% surge over the previous academic year. The record, Outlawed in the USA: Past the Shelves, verifies and …

Nov 04 2024: After a favorable lawful judgment in August, flexibility to check out supporters in Alaska have scored a substantial success in court over prospective book banners. In an October 31 declaring, the Matanuska-Susitna District Institution Area in Alaska agreed to pay $89,000 to resolve insurance claims …